Sen Wilson places Wallaces name before convention

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Sen. Wilson places
Wallace's name
before convention
News Convention Bureau
MIAMI BEACH
the text of the speech by State Sen. Bob Wilson of
Jasper placing the name of Gov. George C. Wallace of
Alabama in nominal al th* Unueicratic National Convention
a
a man, fellow delegates, distinguished guests,
fellow Americans. I rise to place in nomination as the
the name of a great
Vmerican, a ana piWot, a proven winner, a great leader, the
most popular vote getter on the political se-ene and the only
man 111 \ine-riia today who can pick up the pieces of this
Deniiici-alic Parlj and land 11 to victory in November.
1 am a life-long Democrat and live in a Democratic county,
unocrat and am now a not-so-young
Democrat. I have winkeil all of mv political lire for Democratic
e-andidales and Hun- Bolides. I represent the working men and
women and believe I speak with some authority for them. The
Democratic Party lias in the past been the voice of the average
working man and woman and has helped make this country
qreat. I want to see It restored to a position of poUtical
leadership and responsibility in this nation. We must be honest
with ourselves. We are at the crossroad. The Democratic Party
has not responded in recent years to the cry of the people who
made it great. The man whose name I will place in nomination
will restore this party to reason, responsibility and reality, and
wiU lead the party to victory in November.
LET'S FACE IT. You can have a convention, you can have
a party, you can have a platform, and you can have a
nominee, but you can't have a winner in November unless you
nominate a leader who speaks the language of the average tax
paying citizen of this country.
The man whose name I submit was born in CUo In Barbour
County, Alabama, is a lawyer, twice a legislator ln his state, a
judge, twice elected governor of the state. As a legislator, he
demonstrated keen foresight and pioneered educational and
industrial development legislation that has helped Industrialize
our state. He brought educational opportunities within the
grasp of every child in the state.
During his first term of office, Alabama increased
educational apprt ated 29 trade schools and
junior colleges, led the South for three years in new and
expanded industrial growth, developed the largest highway
expansion program in the history of the state. Today he is
leading the way to provide proper medical care and treatment
for all Alabamians by new and imaginative expansion of all
medical schools in the state.
IN 1964 WHEN you and I and average America were almost persuaded that the Democratic processes had broken
down and that the great American dream was being destroyed
by federal bureaucrats and by a tyrannical federal judiciary,
who were not elected by nor responsive to, the voters and
citizens, his leadership manifested itself and he stood up for
America in Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland,
and Indiana. He became an advocate for the working man
and woman, the truck drivers, policemen, clerks, taxi drivers,
and for the over-taxed and underrepresented average American. He alerted this nation as never before to the breakdown
in law and order. He was ahead of his time, when he pointed
out time and time again that criminals were treated better than
the victims. Judges, with some twisted guilt complex, who
never knew and cared less that rights and responsibilities
go hand in hand, time and time again subordinated the rights
of the majority of the tax-paying citizens of this country to
(satisfy the demands of some misguided liberal social theorists.
While this was going on, the leaderships of both national
parties did not have the will or the courage to speak up and
defend the American who pays the bill. The
I place In nomination had the character, had
j had the guts to ten it like it was. He has continued to voice
your cause for local control and liberty and freedom under
constitutional methods. Leaders of both parties have now adopted his speeches as their own and have disclosed their poUtical
| agility by grasshoppering from issue to issue depending on
what the man I propose to nominate says and does.
Law and order Is an issue in November because the people
i going to make it so. Billions and bUUons of dollars are
I being appropriated and spent fur welfare funds, and crime
I bills. A movement Is on now to cause you and I to pay
J additional taxes to pay for all the damage done by criminal
acts while the death penalty hat been abolished. While the
I billions are spent to pacify non-deserving persons, the most
valuable expenditure you and I can make is the purchase of a
sturdy lock for our doors. The man whose name I place In
nomination Is the man who will place the role of Judicial
Integrity on the Judges and courts. Then we can try the
criminals Instead of the police or the victims of the crime.
The popular election of a few federal district judges and
the reconfirmation of the Supreme Court judges would do more
*^ establish a proper Une of communication between judges
id voters than anything I can think of.
Our national defense is on the brink of becoming an
international disgrace. Our nation, a proud and influential
leader of the world, is now held in contempt by nations whose
day to day existence is dependent upon the generosity of this
nation of ours.
OUR SOLDIERS and diplomats are abused and spit upon
abroad, and soldiers are advised not to wear their uniforms
except when on actual duty. We have been engaged ln a no win
war for the past decade. While biUions are poured forth in
foreign aid outside this nation, we provide a forum in the
United Nations for the recipients of this money to abuse this
country and ridicule our leadership. Misguided "do-gooders
and Uberals" apologize for those who burn our flag, and plead
for amnesty for deserters. The man whose name I will propose
believes that every red-blooded American should support the
flag of the land and defend it and the nation it symbolizes. He
believes, as you and I, that nations who receive so much from
us for aid should respect and support us. The man I propose
will make this nation strong and will provide a defense system
from which we can negotiate from strength rather than
weakness. You will again feel a surge of pride when the flag
goes by and can say with conviction "My country tis of thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty." We wiU again be restored to the
position of world leadership, where we belong.
Rights and responsibilities go hand In hand. Those who
receive the benefits should pay the cost. Yet, both poUtical
parties and their leaders agree that we have the most
inequitable tax structure In the history of the world. The large
corporate conglomerates who receive unlimited benefits from
the federal government, often protected by our soldiers abroad,
much of their money made from federal defense contracts, pay
Utile If any Income tax. This while you and I bear an
Increasing burden of taxation. While the Republicans talk of
tax reform, the burden grows heavier and heavier on the man
and woman who work and earn a living by the sweat of the
brow. Our nominee will provide a reform in taxes. The federal
government has no money except that taken from the
taxpayer. It Is not their money to give, but yours to have. Our
nominee will bring about an adjustment in the taxing authority
of the federal government and the Inequitable burden on the
working man and woman.
Our educational system has been all but destroyed by the
social theorists. The running of neighborhood schools should be
returned to local control. Whoever heard of upgrading the
academic standing of a student by giving him an hour and
one-half tour of the city each day by busing him from one end
of the city to the other? Children are carried from their homes
daily to foreign environments while children and parents worry
about their safe return. While the classroom need is growing,
local schools are destroyed What nonsense—there are areas
where it is not safe for teachers much less students to attend
school. Wtule prayer is denied in the school room, murder,
rape, arson, and assaults are daily occurrences in the schools.
Did this happen before the bureaucrats decided to take over
education? No! Students went to school to learn, and criminals
went to jail! The man I propose will return education to our
educational system and return schools to local control. He is
the only man who will return the ABC's to education and take
the BUS out.
ON MAY 15, 1972, the man I propose to nominate was
leading all contenders, after some 17 primaries, by a million or
more votes. He had met all contestants under all circumstances and had been victorious. I have said many times that
he has been tested under fire. His experience has been gained
in the rough seas of life and not in the safe harbor, lie has
dared to accept the challenge. He has been drenched by the
rains of life, parched by the desert sun, trampled by the
federal boot, and each time he has raised his head even higher
and said America, America. A true patriot, a compassionate
man, a devoted father and husband, he Uterally sacrificed his
life's blood on the altar of public opinion, but the wiU and
determination that has brought this man this far will continue
him and see him through.
outstanding American, the name of one wl
his stale time after time, the name of one w
America time after time. The name of one who has stood up
for the people, (or their rights, and their right to be heard time
and time again, and who will continue to do so, the name of
one spared by the hand of God to lead this country and restore
it to its rightful place among the nations of the world.
Before this Democratic convention here assembled on the
12th of July, 1972, I place in nomination for President of the
United States of America, the name of George Corley Wallace,
governor of the state of Alabama.
io has stood ui

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„. ~r»r: :jui 1^972
Sen. Wilson places
Wallace's name
before convention
News Convention Bureau
MIAMI BEACH
the text of the speech by State Sen. Bob Wilson of
Jasper placing the name of Gov. George C. Wallace of
Alabama in nominal al th* Unueicratic National Convention
a
a man, fellow delegates, distinguished guests,
fellow Americans. I rise to place in nomination as the
the name of a great
Vmerican, a ana piWot, a proven winner, a great leader, the
most popular vote getter on the political se-ene and the only
man 111 \ine-riia today who can pick up the pieces of this
Deniiici-alic Parlj and land 11 to victory in November.
1 am a life-long Democrat and live in a Democratic county,
unocrat and am now a not-so-young
Democrat. I have winkeil all of mv political lire for Democratic
e-andidales and Hun- Bolides. I represent the working men and
women and believe I speak with some authority for them. The
Democratic Party lias in the past been the voice of the average
working man and woman and has helped make this country
qreat. I want to see It restored to a position of poUtical
leadership and responsibility in this nation. We must be honest
with ourselves. We are at the crossroad. The Democratic Party
has not responded in recent years to the cry of the people who
made it great. The man whose name I will place in nomination
will restore this party to reason, responsibility and reality, and
wiU lead the party to victory in November.
LET'S FACE IT. You can have a convention, you can have
a party, you can have a platform, and you can have a
nominee, but you can't have a winner in November unless you
nominate a leader who speaks the language of the average tax
paying citizen of this country.
The man whose name I submit was born in CUo In Barbour
County, Alabama, is a lawyer, twice a legislator ln his state, a
judge, twice elected governor of the state. As a legislator, he
demonstrated keen foresight and pioneered educational and
industrial development legislation that has helped Industrialize
our state. He brought educational opportunities within the
grasp of every child in the state.
During his first term of office, Alabama increased
educational apprt ated 29 trade schools and
junior colleges, led the South for three years in new and
expanded industrial growth, developed the largest highway
expansion program in the history of the state. Today he is
leading the way to provide proper medical care and treatment
for all Alabamians by new and imaginative expansion of all
medical schools in the state.
IN 1964 WHEN you and I and average America were almost persuaded that the Democratic processes had broken
down and that the great American dream was being destroyed
by federal bureaucrats and by a tyrannical federal judiciary,
who were not elected by nor responsive to, the voters and
citizens, his leadership manifested itself and he stood up for
America in Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland,
and Indiana. He became an advocate for the working man
and woman, the truck drivers, policemen, clerks, taxi drivers,
and for the over-taxed and underrepresented average American. He alerted this nation as never before to the breakdown
in law and order. He was ahead of his time, when he pointed
out time and time again that criminals were treated better than
the victims. Judges, with some twisted guilt complex, who
never knew and cared less that rights and responsibilities
go hand in hand, time and time again subordinated the rights
of the majority of the tax-paying citizens of this country to
(satisfy the demands of some misguided liberal social theorists.
While this was going on, the leaderships of both national
parties did not have the will or the courage to speak up and
defend the American who pays the bill. The
I place In nomination had the character, had
j had the guts to ten it like it was. He has continued to voice
your cause for local control and liberty and freedom under
constitutional methods. Leaders of both parties have now adopted his speeches as their own and have disclosed their poUtical
| agility by grasshoppering from issue to issue depending on
what the man I propose to nominate says and does.
Law and order Is an issue in November because the people
i going to make it so. Billions and bUUons of dollars are
I being appropriated and spent fur welfare funds, and crime
I bills. A movement Is on now to cause you and I to pay
J additional taxes to pay for all the damage done by criminal
acts while the death penalty hat been abolished. While the
I billions are spent to pacify non-deserving persons, the most
valuable expenditure you and I can make is the purchase of a
sturdy lock for our doors. The man whose name I place In
nomination Is the man who will place the role of Judicial
Integrity on the Judges and courts. Then we can try the
criminals Instead of the police or the victims of the crime.
The popular election of a few federal district judges and
the reconfirmation of the Supreme Court judges would do more
*^ establish a proper Une of communication between judges
id voters than anything I can think of.
Our national defense is on the brink of becoming an
international disgrace. Our nation, a proud and influential
leader of the world, is now held in contempt by nations whose
day to day existence is dependent upon the generosity of this
nation of ours.
OUR SOLDIERS and diplomats are abused and spit upon
abroad, and soldiers are advised not to wear their uniforms
except when on actual duty. We have been engaged ln a no win
war for the past decade. While biUions are poured forth in
foreign aid outside this nation, we provide a forum in the
United Nations for the recipients of this money to abuse this
country and ridicule our leadership. Misguided "do-gooders
and Uberals" apologize for those who burn our flag, and plead
for amnesty for deserters. The man whose name I will propose
believes that every red-blooded American should support the
flag of the land and defend it and the nation it symbolizes. He
believes, as you and I, that nations who receive so much from
us for aid should respect and support us. The man I propose
will make this nation strong and will provide a defense system
from which we can negotiate from strength rather than
weakness. You will again feel a surge of pride when the flag
goes by and can say with conviction "My country tis of thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty." We wiU again be restored to the
position of world leadership, where we belong.
Rights and responsibilities go hand In hand. Those who
receive the benefits should pay the cost. Yet, both poUtical
parties and their leaders agree that we have the most
inequitable tax structure In the history of the world. The large
corporate conglomerates who receive unlimited benefits from
the federal government, often protected by our soldiers abroad,
much of their money made from federal defense contracts, pay
Utile If any Income tax. This while you and I bear an
Increasing burden of taxation. While the Republicans talk of
tax reform, the burden grows heavier and heavier on the man
and woman who work and earn a living by the sweat of the
brow. Our nominee will provide a reform in taxes. The federal
government has no money except that taken from the
taxpayer. It Is not their money to give, but yours to have. Our
nominee will bring about an adjustment in the taxing authority
of the federal government and the Inequitable burden on the
working man and woman.
Our educational system has been all but destroyed by the
social theorists. The running of neighborhood schools should be
returned to local control. Whoever heard of upgrading the
academic standing of a student by giving him an hour and
one-half tour of the city each day by busing him from one end
of the city to the other? Children are carried from their homes
daily to foreign environments while children and parents worry
about their safe return. While the classroom need is growing,
local schools are destroyed What nonsense—there are areas
where it is not safe for teachers much less students to attend
school. Wtule prayer is denied in the school room, murder,
rape, arson, and assaults are daily occurrences in the schools.
Did this happen before the bureaucrats decided to take over
education? No! Students went to school to learn, and criminals
went to jail! The man I propose will return education to our
educational system and return schools to local control. He is
the only man who will return the ABC's to education and take
the BUS out.
ON MAY 15, 1972, the man I propose to nominate was
leading all contenders, after some 17 primaries, by a million or
more votes. He had met all contestants under all circumstances and had been victorious. I have said many times that
he has been tested under fire. His experience has been gained
in the rough seas of life and not in the safe harbor, lie has
dared to accept the challenge. He has been drenched by the
rains of life, parched by the desert sun, trampled by the
federal boot, and each time he has raised his head even higher
and said America, America. A true patriot, a compassionate
man, a devoted father and husband, he Uterally sacrificed his
life's blood on the altar of public opinion, but the wiU and
determination that has brought this man this far will continue
him and see him through.
outstanding American, the name of one wl
his stale time after time, the name of one w
America time after time. The name of one who has stood up
for the people, (or their rights, and their right to be heard time
and time again, and who will continue to do so, the name of
one spared by the hand of God to lead this country and restore
it to its rightful place among the nations of the world.
Before this Democratic convention here assembled on the
12th of July, 1972, I place in nomination for President of the
United States of America, the name of George Corley Wallace,
governor of the state of Alabama.
io has stood ui